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[meg ford <meg387@xxxxxxxxx>]

"Actionable" is used in the book as an adjective ("Is it actionable?"
p. 51 of the 2001 English edition), but as a title, you would be
implying that it was a noun, which it is not. The primary meaning of
the adjective is the legal meaning
http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/actionable. Is there any
place you see it used in the book as a noun? I see "Next Actions", and
"actionable tasks" (as Bertrand mentioned) but not "Actionable". Also,
"actionable tasks" is never used as a category or header in the book,
perhaps because of the ambiguity surrounding this use of the English
term.

Meg

On Sun, Apr 1, 2012 at 2:09 PM, Bertrand Rousseau
<bertrand.rousseau@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 2012/4/1 meg ford <meg387@xxxxxxxxx>:
>> The primary definition of "Actionable"  in English a legal term meaning that
>> you can get sued/criminally tried for doing what you are doing, though :)
>
> Well, we sure don't want to imply that our users perform tasks for
> which they may be sued. ;-)
>
> I'm not an English native speaker, so as far as I am concerned, my
> first encounter with the word "actionable" was through GTD and task
> management. Could you (and anyone who knows) tell us if using this
> term is misleading?
>
>> The timeline approach to simplifying complex tasks is outlined by Brett
>> Victor in this article (http://worrydream.com/#!/MagicInk).
>>
>> Meg
>>
>>
>> 2012/4/1 Izidor Matušov <izidor.matusov@xxxxxxxxx>
>>>
>>> Am 01.04.2012 06:15, schrieb meg ford:
>>>
>>>> Also, on the subject of subtasks, do you think it would be interesting
>>>> to have a "Timeline" view where users could add and view subtasks as
>>>> connected to specific tasks? Rather than defining them as a "thing", we
>>>> could organize a larger task as consisting of smaller tasks, and combine
>>>> it with the calendar function (so users would be adding and editing
>>>> subtasks, maybe by drag and drop) along a line that contained the main
>>>> task, and wouldn't have to use separate actions to define when, etc. I'm
>>>> not sure how to accomplish this in GTK, but I think it would be nice to
>>>> allow the user to define many aspects of their tasks simply, treating
>>>> each task as an object rather something which is defined through a
>>>> complicated series of  actions via drop-down menus, pop-up windows, etc.
>>>
>>>
>>> There is a bug/feature request for that:
>>>
>>> https://bugs.launchpad.net/gtg/+bug/495475
>>>
>>> We need somebody who designs and implements that ;)
>>>
>>>
>>>>    Can these actions be called "To Do"? That would go along with the
>>>>    name (To Do and Task Manager), and the HIG says that strings should
>>>>    be as short as possible.
>>>
>>>
>>> I am against calling them "To Do". Every active task is "To Do" but we
>>> want to say that you can do it right now. In my opinion, we should stick to
>>> "Actionable" from GTD or "Next Action" from other ToDo managers.
>>
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> Bertrand Rousseau